All Alternatives articles – Page 37
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NewsIPE Views: Is there an alternative to alternatives?
Pete Drewienkiewicz on why investors should simply look at asset classes based on their investment goals and objectives
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OECD warns over ‘aggressive interpretation’ of bond covenants
Think tank notes divergent approaches between hedge fund, traditional bond investors requiring third-way approach on engagement
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Consultancy warns on risk naïvety in smart beta allocations
Towers Watson clients add $8bn in 2014 to smart beta strategies, but warns against inherent risks
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PGGM considers offloading hedge fund platform
Dutch asset manager approached by ‘number of interested parties’ over potential acquisition
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IPE Views: Hedge fund fees
IPE contributing editor Joseph Mariathasan explores whether hedge funds can justify their fees
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NewsGerman pension fund tenders €100m alternative strategies mandate
Corporate pension fund uses IPE-Quest to search for multi-strategy, absolute-return vehicle
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West Midlands ditches hedge funds to reach benchmark allocation
£10.1bn local government scheme to divest £200m from hedge fund partners
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EC offers pension funds further two-year clearing exemption
European Commission says lack of market infrastructure allowing pension funds to clear warrants further exemption
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Special Report
Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, Accounting for carbon
To avoid putting garbage into the atmosphere, companies need to stop putting garbage into their accounts and investors need to stop putting garbage into their risk models. Elisabeth Jeffries finds a complex web of carbon disclosure protocols making that a big challenge
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Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, Two tactics are better than one
As investors come under increasing pressure on fossil fuels, Gordon Noble and Matthew Kiernan urge them to remember that divestment without engagement is as futile as engagement without the threat of divestment
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Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, Not a binary choice
Paul Younger draws attention to the irreplaceable role fossil fuels play in many industrial processes, as well as their importance for economic development, to suggest that divestment is not necessarily a responsible course of action
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Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, Borderless potential
Energy security concerns have pushed international power connectivity up the European agenda. Jonathan Williams finds early pension fund investors attracted by stable cash flows in the low-yield environment
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Briefing: Pension Funds and ETFs, Still in the future
Exchange traded product providers claim improving costs make them better than derivatives or traditional passive solutions for both tactical and strategic investment. Brian Bollen finds Europe’s pension funds yet to be fully convinced
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Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, What if we could capture carbon?
There is a big question begged by the ‘stranded assets’ thesis: What if there were no link between burning fossil fuels and emitting greenhouse gases?
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Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, Emission Impossible
When Chris Hitchen, CEO of the UK’s Railpen, thinks about portfolio fossil-fuel exposure, there is no room for moral absolutes. The discussion is “quite different” now that oil trades at $45/bbl rather than $115/bbl, he insists.
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Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, A changing climate
After years of campaigning, a series of recent moves from influential investors suggests that anti-fossil fuel groups are getting money on their side. Mark Nicholls looks at how the risk management and divestment movements are shaping up
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Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, a timeline
July 2011: The Carbon Tracker Initiative launches its seminal ‘Carbon Bubble’ report which, for the first time, puts the 2°C climate change target into a capital markets context…
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Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, Leaving smaller footprints
Bee-Lin Ang, Jonathan Williams and Martin Steward hear from pension fund investors around the world about why carbon and fossil-fuel risk matters, and how they are addressing it
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Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, A low-risk path to carbon reduction
The low-carbon index approach adopted by AP4, FRR and ERAFP aims to mitigate climate change (and career) risk, writes Liam Kennedy
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Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, How the low-tracking-error green index strategy works
As pioneered by the Swedish pension buffer fund AP4, low-tracking-error green indices work on a remarkably simple principle: weighting the stocks in each sector by carbon intensity (CO2 per unit of sales) and removing the most carbon-intense companies and exposure to stranded asset risk in intensity based on market cap.
